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Band "shoots" video by sending Freedom of Information requests to CCTVs that
via Boing Boing by (author unknown) on May 09, 2008
Shared by SharonG crappy song, but cool concept!
Shared by: SharonG, Buzzworkers, Dan, Scott, Jared, William Gordon, Myatu,
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Teens desecrate grave to make pot pipe from skull
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz on May 09, 2008
These gents from Houston are charged with abuse of a corpse after they confessed to digging up a grave to make a pot pipe from the skull. Kevin Wade Jones, 17, was being questioned about a vehicle burglary when he confessed to desecrating the grave a month earlier. Apparently, he and Matthew Richard Gonzales, both 17, and another juvenile dug up the skeleton of an 11-year-old boy who died almost...
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BUILT's Laptop Backpack keeps your files close, peripherals closer
via Engadget by Darren Murph on May 09, 2008
Filed under: Laptops, Peripherals, WearablesNot one to just follow the crowd, BUILT has thrown an interesting twist on the oh-so-popular Neoprene laptop case. The Laptop Backpack enables users to tote their 12- to 17-inch machine right on their back along with textbooks, LAN party flyers and a copy of The Daily Bugle; you'll also find a couple of smaller compartments for storing peripherals...
Shared by: arkiver, npike, Keenan, K, vanlandw, Wyctim, Jared,
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Prevent Windows from Making Copies While Control-Clicking [Annoyances]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 09, 2008
You've just finished carefully control-selecting all those files you need to move off your desktop and into a container folder, and then, one hand slip later, you have twice as many to deal with. The How-To Geek finds the fix, both inside Microsoft's Swiss-Army-Fixer, TweakUI, and in two registry values you can find inside the HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop key. Change DragHeight...
Shared by: Keenan, Grandje5ter, step21, Jared,
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WildRename Does the Grunt Work of File Name Fixing [File Management]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 01, 2008
Windows only: Rename large sets of files without batch scripting or endless clicking with WildRename, a free Windows utility. If you've been putting off organizing and renaming a vast collection of MP3s, pictures, or videos, you can stop procrastinating, as WildRename makes it easy to strip characters off the end of files, add or remove dashes, spaces, and other naming quirks, and correct...
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Share anything. Anytime. Anywhere.
via Official Google Reader Blog by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
... there's all sorts of information "out there" just waiting to be streamed, shared and otherwise consumed by you and your friends. Now you can finally show all of your Reader friends that awesome talking cat video you found, your favorite grilled trout recipe, or reviews of the best brunch place in your neighborhood -- all without a subscription.Here are a few new ways you can add and share ...
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Find Your Lost Cell Phone with PhoneMyPhone [Cell Phones]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 07, 2008
Misplaced your cell phone around the house and don't have another phone on hand to call it up to locate it? Give your number to web site PhoneMyPhone and they'll instantly ring you up. Aside from instant calling to locate your phone, PhoneMyPhone will also schedule phone calls at specific times, similar to previously mentioned Popularity Dialer, to get you out of that boring meeting or...
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Pranksters (?) hood a Google Street View cam with a plastic bag
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 08, 2008
David sez, "Someone put a plastic bag over the camera cluster on one of Google's Street View cars, and the resulting imagery seems to have made it right through to Google Maps."Of course, maybe the bag just blew over the cameras.We can be quite sure this is a plastic bag too, because it actually says “plastic bag” on it. Unfortunately we’re not familiar enough with Alaskan plastic bags...
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Surreal muscle magazine cover
via Boing Boing by (author unknown) on May 08, 2008
Shared by Me that is pretty fucking amazingWhen I saw this magazine on the newsstand, I thought it was a gaming magazine with a photo of a character in a video game. But I think it's a photo of a real human being. (Click on thumbnail for enlargement)
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Determine If Your ISP is Throttling Your BitTorrent Traffic [BitTorrent]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 07, 2008
Web application Glasnost simulates BitTorrent downloads on your computer to determine whether or not your internet service provider (ISP) is throttling your BitTorrent transfers. It does so by measuring the difference between your regular download speed and your BitTorrent download speed, testing against different ports and other variables to get a better idea of what exactly is being throttled....
Shared by: Terren, Jason David Pelker, Keenan, Phonkmeister, Art, BrendoMan, Jamin, step21, Jared, prattmic, REngber,
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